A
public-interest watchdog
group yesterday released a shocking report of its investigation
into fundraising by both presidential candidates that revealed that
President Barack Obama's fundraising tactics has garnered campaign contributions
from Chinese, Arabic, Thai, and Korean nationals overseas.

According
to the Federal Elections
Commission, contributions to American political campaigns from donors
in foreign nations are criminal violations of federal law.

According
to Government Accountability
Institute officials, the web site Obama.com, which acts as a gateway
the Obama campaign's donation web site, receives an enormous number
of "hits" from citizen's of foreign countries. This situation
has resulted in the questioning of the legality of million of dollars
in donations to the Obama campaign, according to a new report.

The
108-page
analysis, from the group that uncovered President Obama skipping
many of his national security briefings, studied Internet fundraising
by both Obama and his opponent Mitt Romney, as well as congressional
candidates in the Democratic and Republican Parties.

While
the GAI
probe showed questionable activity by many campaigns, the largest
section of its report addresses donations to the Obama campaign. For
example, an anonymously registered redirect site (Obama.com) features
68% foreign traffic.

In
2008, Obama.com was purchased by an Obama fundraiser living in Shanghai,
China, whose business is heavily dependent on relationships with Chinese
state-run television and other state-owned entities.

Starting
in December 2011, the site was linked to a specific donation page on
the official www.BarackObama.com campaign web site for ten months. The
page loaded a tracking number, 634930, into a space on the web site
labeled "who encouraged you to make this donation." That tracking
number is embedded in the source code for Obama.com and is associated
with the Obama Victory Fund. In early September 2012, the page began
redirecting to the standard Obama Victory Fund donation page. Search
engine optimization (SEO) efforts, using common spamming techniques,
may have also been undertaken by unknown third-parties, generating foreign
traffic to Obama.com.

The
report also reveals many of the donations are less than the $200 cut-off
that mandates campaigns to identify the donors.

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web site. Obama.com, is now unavailable for viewing according to search
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During
Obama 2008 campaign, a WorldNetDaily
story by Aaron Klein claimed that Sen. Barack Obama's campaign contended
that it had returned $33,500 in illegal contributions from Palestinians
in Hamas-controlled Gaza, but the donors told Aaron Klein of WND they
never received any money.

The
Palestinians
said that the financial transactions made on Obama's campaign web site
were not actual donations but purchases of "Obama for President"
T-shirts. The transactions, however, were listed as donations in U.S.
government election filings.